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Astrid Falk

I stayed here

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

the numbers

bpm
112
key
F major
energy
0.70
dance
0.93
valence
0.61
vocal at
5.2s
length
2:29
language
En

lyrics

July left town in vans

Yellow tape on the court

Bike chains hung in the hall

And I kept my own report

Empty pool behind the school

Flip-flops by the train

I ate plums from a paper bag

While the bus drove through the rain

You wrote, “we’re gone by noon”

I watched the mailbox lean

The baker pulled the shutters down

At six seventeen

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here

Your name on the locker door

Half-rubbed by a sleeve

Corn dust on the windowsill

And one lost hockey leaf

The market shed was locked up tight

Grapes in a red crate

I sat on the ferry bench

Till the water turned slate

Your wheels went over cobblestone

Mine stayed by the wall

The mint plant in the blue tin can

Kept leaning through it all

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here

August came in thin white socks

Past the laundromat glass

One blue towel on the line

And a dog running past

You left with a suitcase zip

I heard it through the yard

I stayed to hear the tram doors close

And count each card

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here

I stayed here